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SF To Shutter Courtrooms; Lay Off 200 Workers
KTVU ^ | 07/18/11 | Staff

Posted on 07/18/2011 2:04:07 PM PDT by DFG

The San Francisco Superior Court is laying off more than 40 percent of its staff and shuttering 25 courtrooms because of budget cuts.

Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein said Monday that the cuts mean it will take many more hours to pay a traffic ticket in person, up to 18 months to finalize a divorce and five years for a lawsuit to go to trial. The cuts go into effect on Sept. 30 and are needed to close a $13.75 million deficit.

Some 200 of the court's 480 workers will be let go, including 11 of 12 commissioners who preside over a variety of cases.

Feinstein said the deficit was caused by the $350 million budget cut that Sacramento lawmakers made to the courts to approve the state's annual budget.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: courtroom; feinstein; katherinefeinstein; sf
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1 posted on 07/18/2011 2:04:16 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

I think this is what they call “a good start.”


2 posted on 07/18/2011 2:06:49 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Member Emeritus of Vitriolics Anonymous.)
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To: DFG
the cuts mean it will take many more hours to pay a traffic ticket in person, up to 18 months to finalize a divorce and five years for a lawsuit to go to trial

Are there any downsides?

3 posted on 07/18/2011 2:07:32 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: DFG

The court wants a BAIL-OUT?!?!?! Hahaha! BAIL-out? Get it? You see, bail is like when . . . awww, never mind.


4 posted on 07/18/2011 2:07:47 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (The United States Marine Corps, your greatest friend or your worst enemy. YOU choose.)
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To: DFG

Less gov in SF is good news. Lay off more gov employees. Let them eat cake, like the rest of us.


5 posted on 07/18/2011 2:08:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: johniegrad

I am pretty certain those fired people voted for Frisco to pay for city employees who want to change genders.

How sad, too bad. That’s what happens in the egalitarian paradise,


6 posted on 07/18/2011 2:09:26 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law)
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To: clintonh8r

Yup. Great start! Now, cut, baby, cut!!


7 posted on 07/18/2011 2:09:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: DFG

I don’t know if this is THE event, but some cut back of “services” is going to throw California into a Greece-like snit of protesting/riots/strikes...I can’t say I won’t be laughing a bit. Can’t print money like the feds.

Watch Oakland when “services” start to really be cut back. Looting and shooting. That won’t make me laugh, but I won’t be surprised.


8 posted on 07/18/2011 2:10:14 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: johniegrad

Mail your traffic fine, go to San Jose for your divorces and lawsuits - if you want them bad enough the drive is nothing.

Problem Solved.


9 posted on 07/18/2011 2:11:11 PM PDT by KittenClaws (A closed mouth gathers no foot.)
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To: DFG

I don’t see anywhere in the article where they state how many judges are being given their walking papers.


10 posted on 07/18/2011 2:12:56 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: DFG

You’ll be there all day to pay a traffic ticket, folks. But if two men want to get married they will immediately move to the head of the line.


11 posted on 07/18/2011 2:18:47 PM PDT by Argus
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To: DFG
IIRC, Frisco (Friscans just HATE it when you call SF "Frisco") is a sanctuary city for illegal aliens.

One wonders what the total costs for housing, med care, law enforcement, and other service and support costs associated illegal aliens might be, and how these costs compete with needed services for legal taxpaying citizens.

And, one wonders if Friscans will ever make this connection (of losing quality of life while supporting those who do not deserve or appreciate support.)

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12 posted on 07/18/2011 2:21:03 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: DFG

ya don’t need courts in utopia.


13 posted on 07/18/2011 2:22:26 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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To: DFG

Given the California judiciary this is the best news in years and years. Now if we can just close the Ninth Circuit Federal Courts many criminals would be jailed, those deserving it would be beaten and hung. As a result of the closure of the courts and the loss by the criminals of their privileged status we could all laugh again. Husband and wives could stroll hand in hand in the evening; children could frolic; we could have clowns, jugglers, high wire artists and general merriment; illegal aliens would taken to the border in trains, buses, taxi’s cargo planes; a reduction in the tax burden would occur; people would be hired on merit and enrolled in Universities because they are worthy; the quality of medical school graduates would improve. We would be restored at least to partial social health. Closing the courts “IS A GOOD THING!”


14 posted on 07/18/2011 2:23:59 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: johniegrad
Are there any downsides?

None, unless you need to pay or contest a traffic ticket in person, file for divorce, sue someone, or wait in line for anything else that is handled in Superior Court. The article doesn't say if this will affect the criminal cases. (I recently visited a superior court about an estate matter.)

15 posted on 07/18/2011 2:28:06 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: DFG

Don’t the SF courts just let everyone walk anyway?

It’s good that they’re cutting out the middle man and just turn everyone loose. :)


16 posted on 07/18/2011 2:40:39 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: DFG

Hmm... and to whom might “Katherine Feinstein” be related?

Ooh, that’s a toughy. (her daughter actually).

Democrats: when it’s not corruption it’s nepotism


17 posted on 07/18/2011 2:44:41 PM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000
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To: KittenClaws

Wrong!!! San Jose was just below San Francisco on the Ten Most Poorly Managed Cities (read the most in debt). Look for San Jose to follow suit. Their courts have to manage the same legislative cutbacks as the marxist judicial system does in SF. The only remaining problem we have here is being able to protect yourself. If there’s trouble, a CCW permit isn’t going to prevent folks from having a gun on them.


18 posted on 07/18/2011 2:52:58 PM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: wideminded

The article does say that criminal cases won’t be affected.
“The future is very, very bleak for our courts,” Feinstein said at a Monday press conference. Feinstein said criminal cases would remain largely unaffected because of constitutional guarantees of speedy trials. Every other type of court, though, is facing significant cutbacks.


19 posted on 07/18/2011 3:23:42 PM PDT by physcitech (God only knows)
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To: Seaplaner

“One wonders what the total costs for housing, med care, law enforcement, and other service and support costs associated illegal aliens might be, and how these costs compete with needed services for legal taxpaying citizens.”

These costs aren’t just passed on to local taxpayers - we’re all getting whacked as a result of these “sanctuary cities”.

“Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program,” a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, found that the federal grant program commonly known as SCAAP allocated $62.2 million — more than 15 percent of its $400 million total — to 27 jurisdictions that are widely considered to be “sanctuary communities.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/12/doj-gave-millions-sanctuary-communities-report-finds/#ixzz1SUu1Z5k3


20 posted on 07/18/2011 3:26:38 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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